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Quartile   (English)

Definition (keystage 2)

Statistics which divide the observations in a numeric sample into 4 intervals, each containing 25
The middle quartile is usually called the Median.

Definition (keystage 3)

The point one quarter or three quarters of the way through a set of data. See also median, which is halfway through the data.

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